25 by 25 is not 625
We, doctors, nurses, cardiology technicians and other professions related with cardiology have hopes and projects for our personal, institutional and society lives. Yet, we sometimes feel confused when we think about the population. What can we do to improve public health? We can all contribute and work together with our Society. During the past year, we have launched the 25 by 25 Program.
25 by 25 is the project of the Argentine Society of Cardiology and the Argentine Foundation of Cardiology to achieve a 25% reduction in cardiovascular premature deaths by 2025.
In September 2011, the World Health Organization (WHO) established a series of key targets to be achieved by all the regions by 2025; …show more content…
In this way, our colleagues and the entire community will be able to program the future actions during 2017, put them in practice in 2018, monitor and measure the impact in 2019 and reconsider the actions to achieve the final target in 2025.
What is the SAC - FCA 25 by 25 target?
A world work group of cardiovascular diseases, made up of the World Heart Federation, American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology Foundation, European Heart Network, European Society of Cardiology and their member organizations in Asia, Africa and Latin America, world experts in cardiovascular diseases, focused on spreading the information to reach the goal proposed by 2025.
To achieve this goal, the WHO identified 8 targets for the prevention, control and treatment of 6 key risk factors, and 2 health system targets related with the use of medications and technologies to prevent NCDs, particularly cardiovascular …show more content…
The FCA is in charge of projecting it to the community. Once the topic has been installed in the medical community and in the population, we must use all our resources to educate by means of on site or online courses, and include this target in the postgraduate course of cardiology, in the refreshing courses as the PROSAC or in WikiCardio, our online site with information for the patient and his/her family. The development of Regulations, Consensus Statements and Recommendations should be established for the management of risk factors. The information of the reality of the country must be presented as national cross-sectional and continuous